South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Leadership training for the 10 week “Becoming a Modern Day Princess” mentorship course for young girls, that has equipped thousands of American girls to make wise lifestyle choices, will be presented at Godfirst City Church offices in Fourways on Saturday, October 25, 2014. The urgent need for training of leaders to […]
Port Elizabeth Christian youth worker Alta de Lange has been running Adventure Week children’s holiday clubs for 10 years. And the adventure just keeps on getting bigger and bolder. Having seen the love and joy of Jesus touch thousands of young people’s lives through Adventure Week and the programme spreading […]
As Christians we are often unaware of the effect we have on other people and wonder if there is any purpose in much of what we do, said David Cape, who over the last 26 years has walked thousands of kilometres through more than 30 nations carrying a cross and […]
The South African Police Service (SAPS) will hold a National Prayer Day at the SAPS Tshwane Academy in Pretoria West from 10am to 1pm on Monday, September 29, 2014 as part of its observance of September as Police Safety Month. The Police Safety Month which was declared to increase safety […]
Originally published in iol news A 26-year-old man was fined R15 000 on Wednesday (September 24, 2014) for putting up posters advertising services for illegal abortions, Johannesburg metro police said. The man was putting up the posters at the Baragwanath taxi rank in Soweto, said Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar. He […]
In August, we ran an article about JOYburg and Sue Jameson’s ambitious plan to ‘call out the gold,’ and transform the city of Johannesburg. We have an update from Jameson regarding the #Firsts competition that she entered. “I am delighted to let you know that I am a finalist. My […]
Intercessors will be gathering at the Wanderers Club, Illovo, Johannesburg on Friday evening, September 26 for the first Gauteng Prayer Storm, hosted by United in Prayer (UIP). “The focus of this prayer will be on unity in the body of Christ, the leadership of the Holy Spirit, integrity in the […]
The explosion of mobile phones in Africa is opening up new ways of doing evangelism. The potential for this will be investigated at a two-day event in Pretoria on October 17 and 18, 2014. The event is the initiative of the movement, Indigitous, whose aim is to connect people to […]
By Andrew Selley, Founder & CEO of Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) This week in national media, news broke of legal proceedings instituted in the Johannesburg High Court against six public schools (two in the Cape, and four in Gauteng), all of who hold to a Christian ethos […]
A group of about 50 doctors, nursing staff and medical students from the Christian Medical Fellowship — mainly 4th and 5th year students from universities in Gauteng and Mpumalanga — recently requested and underwent training on how to be better equipped to deal with crisis pregnancies. As Christians, the medical group wanted […]